While a controversy ensued, Hansen rightfully received acknowledgment as the discoverer of the leprosy bacillus. |
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His discovery of the tubercle bacillus was a starting point for a worldwide campaign against an age-old scourge of the human race. |
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He discovered the leprosy bacillus in 1873, a cousin of the tuberculosis bacillus, and the disease is often called Hansen's disease. |
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Currently a third of the world's population carry the bacillus, albeit in a dormant form. |
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In its vegetative form, the bacillus has a protective capsule that keeps a human's immune system from killing it. |
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The diphtheria bacillus also secretes an exotoxin that can cause other symptoms such as inflammation of the heart. |
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Tularemia is caused by the zoonotic bacillus commonly known as Francisella tularensis. |
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Then there was the popular microbe theory, wherein a living microbe or bacillus caused baldness. |
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Clostridium botulinum, the causative agent of botulism, is an obligate anaerobic, gram-positive bacillus occurring singly or in pairs. |
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One is a microscopic rod-shaped bacterium called bacillus anthracis, easy to grow in the lab but fragile and easily killed in the open. |
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At far right, Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum, an elongate bacillus form. |
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The bacillus can lie dormant and undetected in the body for several months or years. |
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Chancroid, acute, localized, chiefly sexually transmitted disease, usually of the genital area, caused by the bacillus Haemophilus ducreyi. |
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Doctors said the condition was a case of a bacterial infection known as actinomycosis, a common oral bacillus that rarely attacks the tongue. |
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The book ends with the haunting observation that although the plague bacillus can go into hiding for years and years, it never dies or disappears for good. |
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American researchers say the strain of the bacillus found is more common in laboratories than in the wild. |
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Was the bacillus of totalitarianism that infected Germany first bred in Russia? |
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Tetanus is an often fatal infectious disease caused by the toxigenic strains of the tetanus bacillus. |
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This bacillus is also associated with bacteremia, endocarditis, and osteomyelitis in drug addicts. |
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Additionally, they had only produced a harmless, non-pathogenic strain of bacillus anthracis. |
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A new strain of bacillus circulans was discovered by the Roquette Microbiology Department. |
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Anthrax, or bacillus anthracis, is spore-forming bacteria found in soil that most commonly affects cattle. |
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Might Stevens have encountered spores of bacillus anthracis during a recent hike through woods in North Carolina? |
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The antibacterial action of citrus peel oil on the tubercule bacillus in vitro. |
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In the United States anthrax case, the letter sent to one addressee contained approximately 1 to 2 grams of powder containing bacillus anthracis spores. |
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Multiple urine cultures revealed staphylococci, streptococci, Escherichia coli, and diphtheroid bacillus species. |
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Does that mean removing every bacillus from the landscape? |
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Listeria monocytogenes is a Gram-positive bacillus which is facultatively anaerobic and non-spore-forming. |
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Leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease, is caused by a bacillus, Mycobacterium leprae. |
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All you need to do, in the case of the corn plant with the bacillus gene in it, is isolate from the corn plant the insecticidal protein, analyse it, and show that it has exactly the same amino acid sequence. |
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Various phosphate-solubilizing microbes are species of pseudomonas, bacillus, penicillium, and aspergillus. |
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These include bacillus, pseudomonas and aspergillums bacteria which provide phosphorous macronutrients to plants. |
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She was then moved to the ICU where she underwent a bronchoscopy, and a bronchoalveolar lavage sample was positive for acid-fast bacillus. |
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Effect of dried bacillus subtilis culture on growth, body composition and hepatic lipogenic enzyme activity in femal broiler chicks. |
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It is caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei, a gram-negative, saprophytic bacillus found in soil and water. |
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Caught early, the bacillus responds to antibiotics. |
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Thus, we thought it pertinent to provide additional information that would be useful in speciating isolates of the oryx bacillus. |
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Murine typhus, also known as endemic or flea-borne typhus, is caused by Rickettsia typhi, a gram-negative, obligate intracellular bacillus. |
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The mode of transmission of the leprosy bacillus remains uncertain, but most investigators believe that M. leprae is spread from person to person, primarily as a nasal droplet infection. |
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Melioidosis is the etiological designation of a spectrum of clinical manifestations caused by the gram-negative bacillus Burkholderia pseudomallei. |
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C violaceum is a ubiquitous, saprophytic, anaerobic, gram-negative bacillus that lives in soil and stagnant bodies of water in tropical and subtropical climates. |
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